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Shelagh Delaney, FRSL (; 25 November 1938〔 – 20 November 2011)〔(Writer Shelagh Delaney dies at 72 ), thenewstribune.com, 21 November 2011; accessed 10 June 2014.〕 was an English dramatist and screenwriter, best known for her debut work, ''A Taste of Honey'' (1958). ==Early life and ''A Taste of Honey''== Of Irish ancestry, Delaney was born in 1938 in Broughton, Salford, Lancashire.〔 She was the daughter of a bus inspector.〔(Shelagh Delaney profile ), FilmReference.com; accessed 10 June 2014.〕 She failed the eleven plus exam four times,〔Samantha Ellis, ("A Taste of Honey, London, May 1958" ), ''The Guardian'', 10 September 2003〕 and attended Broughton Secondary Modern school before transferring to a grammar school at the age of fifteen where she gained five O-levels.〔(Shelagh Delaney biography ), queens-theatre.co.uk; accessed 10 June 2014.〕 Delaney wrote her first play 〔James Michael Welsh, John C. Tibbetts. ''The Cinema of Tony Richardson'', SUNY Press, 1999, p. 99〕 in ten days, after seeing Terence Rattigan's ''Variations on a Theme'' (some sources say it was after seeing ''Waiting for Godot''), at the Opera House, Manchester〔Michael Billington, ("Shelagh Delaney gave working class women a taste of what was possible" ), ''The Guardian'', 21 November 2011〕 during its pre–West End tour.〔(Obituary: Shelagh Delaney ), ''Daily Telegraph'', 21 November 2011; accessed 10 June 2014.〕 Delaney felt she could do better than Rattigan, partly because she felt "Variations..." showed "insensitivity in the way Rattigan portrayed homosexuals".〔C.D. Innes ''Modern British Drama: the Twentieth Century'', Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, p. 80〕 Her play, ''A Taste of Honey'', was accepted by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop. "Quite apart from its meaty content, we believe we have found a real dramatist", Gerry Raffles of Theatre Workshop said at the time.〔Yael Zarhy-Levo ''The Making of Theatrical Reputations'', University of Iowa Press, 2008, p. 80〕 In the production's programme Delaney was described "the antithesis of London's 'angry young men'. She knows what she is angry about."〔Rachel Cooke ("Shelagh Delaney: the return of Britain's angry young woman" ), ''The Observer'', 25 January 2014〕 ''A Taste of Honey'', first performed on 27 May 1958,〔 is set in her native Salford.〔("Shelagh Delaney's Salford" ), screenonline.org.uk; accessed 10 June 2014.〕 "I had strong ideas about what I wanted to see in the theatre. We used to object to plays where the factory workers came cap in hand and call the boss 'sir'. Usually North Country people are shown as gormless, whereas in actual fact, they are very alive and cynical."〔Shelagh Delaney interview, 2 February 1959, ''Mid Century Drama'', London, Faber, 1960, p. 169 as quoted in Pia Conti's "Shelagh Delaney", in Claude Lichtenstein & Thomas Schregenberger ''As found: the discovery of the ordinary'', Springer, 2001, p. 266〕 Reuniting the original cast,〔Stephen Lacey ''British realist theatre: the new wave in its context 1956–1965'', London: Routlege, p. 51〕 the play subsequently enjoyed a run of 368 performances in the West End from January 1959;〔Elaine Aston and Janelle G. Reinelt ''The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights'', Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, p. 41〕 it was also on Broadway, with Joan Plowright as Jo and Angela Lansbury as her mother in the original cast.〔Dennis Barker, (Obituary: Shelagh Delaney ), ''The Guardian'', 21 November 2011; accessed 10 June 2014.〕 It is "probably the most performed play by a post-war British woman playwright".〔Michael Patterson, ''The Oxford Dictionary of Plays'', Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, p. 402〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shelagh Delaney」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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